I think this happens to reporters a lot. They see someone who looks interesting. They chat with them, and they think, “Hunh, maybe there’s a

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. I recently read a thread in UKAN — a listserv for U.K. audio

One of my favorite past times is sending music to friends, usually a link to a song sent by text. Punk, dub, and experimental music

There are many reasons to gather audio creators: to share skills, promote goods and services, experience a performance. Every audio festival out there has its

I picked up on something Ira Glass said in the last episode of Sound School that I want to highlight here. Rather than structuring a

Hello! Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. This month there’s a few brilliant opportunities for makers who are underrepresented

I started counting the number of valuable tips Ira Glass of This American Life offers on this episode of Sound School and I gave up.

Introduction  For as long as I can remember I was a kid who talked too much. I could never just relay information — I always

I remember thinking: Uh, oh. We hired the wrong translator. I was in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro to be exact, reporting a story on pretrial

(I recommend you listen to this episode before reading this post or listening to the audio excerpt below. All of it will make much more

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. In some personal news, I’m headed to New York for the first two

Right this minute, I’m riding an Amtrak train, heading home after visiting my daughter at college. It’s supposed to be a day off. No work.

Note from Sarah Geis: This manifesto is made up of excerpts of interviews I did with fellow members of the core production team: Yohance Lacour,

During the first couple of minutes of this episode, I take NPR to task for the preponderance of two-ways on the network’s news programs. In

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. You might know me as an organiser of resources, but I’m an audio

Looking for a Signal We’ve spent the last five years using our perspective as scientists and funders not only to figure out why exceptional independent

Dale Lumsden taught me how to cut tape — as in reel-to-reel tape. I call his teaching approach “The Lumsden Method.” The way Dale did

Searching for Story A big “thing” happened early on in my life: my Mum died. When I was three years old she fell off of

We’re revisiting a valuable episode recorded in 2016 for this installment of The Sound School Podcast. Despite my severe hesitation around recording in stereo (I

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow and this month there’s some suitably great opportunities

A journalist friend of mine once joked, “This is how journalists count: One. Two. Trend.” Just in case it doesn’t make sense, I’ll explain. Reporters

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. This is my first All Hear as a freelancer… I haven’t been fully freelance since

I remember talking to Matej Praprotnik, the Assistant Director of Radio at Radio Slovenia, and practically demanding that he “Get Maja out of the studio!”

One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen in a radio studio — maybe the strangest thing I’ve seen — happened during a class on

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. I hope everyone had a lovely and restful holiday. There are loads of

When you listen to Martine Powers narrating The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop from The Washington Post, here’s what you don’t see and hear: This

It’s hard to imagine an experienced storyteller like Jonathan Goldstein feeling anxious about writing and putting a story together. But he says the anxiety is always there.

CONTENT NOTE: This piece contains brief mention of suicidal ideation and ableism.  CONCEPT AND PROCESS  The process of being diagnosed as autistic is tough. It

Remember the Lockdown Times? The Stay-at-Home, it’s Safer to Not Breathe Each Others’ Air times? The Overemoting from the Waist Up, while Slumping in PJ’s

My wife called me a psycho after she first heard this story.  I admit, it hits a little harder coming from her. Not because she’s

The opening to the previous episode of Sound School was boring. Dull. Uninteresting. As Ira Glass has put it, “Story equals bait plus narrative.” Well,

In the early 2000s, I dreamed of quitting my day job to produce radio stories full time. I managed to get a few pieces on

As we come to the end of the year, we always try to compile a list of interesting gear for people making radio, or podcasts,

This piece was born out of a strange sense of homesickness I was feeling in the fall of 2022.  It was the first time in

Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, The Everything List for Audio Opportunities. This is the longest edition of All Hear ever — 90+ opportunities! The

Theo Greenly remembers there used to be hovercraft transport to Akutan Island but not anymore. To get there to report a story for the public